Senate Statement by
Senator the Hon. Dion
Foulkes
15th February 2012
Madam President
The PLP had a meeting in Yamacraw the
other night. My name was called more than the PLP candidate’s name.
It is obvious to all that the PLP intends to run a negative campaign.
What they said about me was all lies. But I don’t expect anything
different from them. They are not going to address the issues.
I predict that they will continue to lie on FNM candidates because that
is what their advisors from the United States have told them to do.
The PLP was in Government from 2002 to
2007 and they could have done whatever they wanted to do. But they knew
then as they know now that it was all a bunch of lies.
Madam President
When overseas students and Government
workers go to the polls to vote they will remember the shame and scandal
which the PLP and Perry Christie brought to this country. They will
remember the Harachi scandal. Where a foreign investor said he gave
the PLP $10 million dollars in exchange for a promise of a Bank license.
The PLP never gave him the bank license and he left the Bahamas. He
made other allegations which I will deal with later.
Madam President
When voters go to the polls they will
remember the promise that Perry Christie made that he will do a forensic
accounting and report to the Bahamian people exactly how much money
Harachi gave him and the PLP. As is the norm with Perry Christie
we never saw the forensic report because he never intended to do one.
Just talk. It isn’t too late for him to fulfill this promise to the
Bahamian people.
Madam President
I suggest that Brave Davis, when he is
telling lies on people, he should remember the airport scandal
where heavy equipment was grounded by the police because it was purchased
from the proceeds of drug trafficking. I believe one of the tractors
is still behind the Airport Police Station.
Madam President
When overseas Bahamian voters go to the
polls they will also remember the Chinese Visa scandal. They will remember
how a senior consular officer reported to the United States Embassy
that “visas were being issued to patently ineligible applicants”.
They will also remember that the officer also alleged that
a senior PLP cabinet minister “received a portion of whatever fee
the Chinese nationals paid for the visa.”
